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The Egg Walker[note 1][1] (エッグウォーカー[2] Eggu Wōkā?) is an enemy that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a mass-produced, ostrich-based Badnik created by Dr. Eggman.

Appearance[]

Shaped like ostriches, the Egg Walkers have lavender bodies with black pelvises and long black legs. Their legs in particular have red lights where they bend, and their feet each possess two purple toes. In place of wings, they have two-barreled missile launchers. Finally, they have long necks (with a red-lit joint) and flat black heads that only have red eye lenses and a purple fin on top as facial features.

In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing, the Egg Walkers have red bodies and short, round wings that serve no purpose. They also have thick gray thighs with two parallel bars making up their individual lower legs and narrow, shoe-like feet with brown spikes on the front. Their necks are made up of gray and brown spheres locked together, and they have yellow beaks with missile launchers inside them. They also have red heads with round jaw joints, black and white eyes, and brown feather-like combs. Lastly, they have yellow fins on their backs and wings, and yellow and black hazard stripes on the back tip of their wings.

Overview[]

The Egg Walkers make their only apperance in Sonic Forces, where they can be found in stages such as Luminous Forest, Park Avenue, Metropolitan Highway, Null Space and Mortar Canyon.

In gameplay, the Egg Walkers will run away from the playable character when they start getting too close to them. In case the player stops following them or they reach the end of a road however, the Egg Walkers will eventually come to a stop. While running, the Egg Walkers will launch missiles that home in on the playable character behind them. However, in Null Space and Mortar Canyon there are situations where the Egg Walkers will stand in one place instead of running away and fire their missiles at the playable character.

Having no forms of defense, the Egg Walkers are easily destroyed with any form of attack.

Powers and abilities[]

The Egg Walkers are very fast runners, although they cannot match up speedsters like Sonic or Shadow. They also come equipped with missile launchers that let them fire explosive missiles.

In other media[]

IDW Publishing[]

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A trio of Egg Walkers, from Sonic the Hedgehog #2.

In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing, the Egg Walkers are Badniks created by Dr. Eggman. In this media, the Egg Walkers have been redesigned to look like a combination of an ostrich and a fowl.

After Sonic the Hedgehog thwarted Dr. Eggman in their last encounter, the Doctor disappeared while his Egg Walkers and the rest of his Badnik army remained. Without a leader however, the Egg Walkers were directionless and no longer a unified threat.[3] Even so, they would still randomly attack anyone they came across[4] (although such incidents were more accidental than aggression-based[3]). Eventually, the Egg Walkers came under the control of Neo Metal Sonic, who made them and their fellow Badniks more cohesive.[3][5]

Soon after, the Egg Walkers attacked a town from the west while the Death Crab distracted Sonic and Amy. Inside the town, the first wave of Egg Walkers found opposition in the form of Sonic, who began trashing them until more Badniks came and forced him back through sheer force of numbers. The Egg Walkers then proceeded to the town square, only to get gunned down by the town's militia under the directions of Amy. Regardless, more Egg Walkers tried advancing into the town, but their numbers soon got so thinned out by Sonic and Amy that the town's militia was able to handle them.[4]

Much later, several Egg Walkers and other Badniks helped defended the Egg Base Delta against Knuckles, Vector, Espio, and Charmy when they broke into the city and began attacking them (due to the heroes thinking that Dr. Eggman and his Badniks were the ones who stole their relic). However, once Dr. Eggman informs Knuckles and the Chaotix that he had nothing to do with stealing their relic, the heroes would then stop attacking the Egg Walkers and other Badniks before proceeding to leave Egg Base Delta.[6]

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Notes[]

  1. While not listed in any instruction manuals or games, the internal files in Sonic Forces refer to this enemy as "Egg Walker".

References[]

  1. Flynn, Ian; Sega (8 December 2021). "Sonic Forces". Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-speed-ia. Dark Horse Books. p. 262. ISBN 978-1506719276. "Egg Walker - High-speed ostrich bot that launches missiles."
  2. 絵と音から魅力を紐解く『ソニックフォース』:設定画公開編(2018年2月号より) (Japanese). Nintendo Dream (24 November 2019). Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved on 4 October 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sonic the Hedgehog #1, "Fallout, Part 1"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Sonic the Hedgehog #2, "Fallout, Part 2"
  5. Sonic the Hedgehog #7, "Meet the New Boss"
  6. Sonic the Hedgehog #65, "Relic Robbing Rumble, Part 1"
  7. Ian Flynn on Twitter. Twitter (12 April 2018). Retrieved on 13 April 2018. "Andrew DeCrescenzo: So the canon story version is that the Sonic Forces version was a prototype of sorts, or in this universe, this was the version that was always used? / Ian Flynn: Does it really matter? Maybe both models were used during the war."

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